Quotes by Philosopher

We can't learn without pain.

But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study.

In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

Education begins at the level of the learner.

“The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil, and to the use of it; fourth, the right of freedom of labor and of exchange; fifth, the right to justice; sixth, the right to live within a natural national organization; and seventh, the right to education.”

“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.”

“Animal protection is education to the humanity.”

"Love is a better teacher than duty."

"I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate."